US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 30 for "Speed reasoning in the presence of uncertainty when pulling over" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,341, issued on June 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Speed reasoning in the presence of uncertainty when pulling over" was invented by Xu Dong (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Lee Pedersen (San Francisco) and Jakob Robert Zwiener (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology involves pullover maneuvers for vehicles operating in an autonomous driving mode. A vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode is able to identify parking locations that may be occluded or otherwise not readily visible. A best case estimation for any potential parking locations, including partially or fully occl...